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A.P. Music Theory
AP Music Theory Syllabus & Course Overview Primary Texts
Clendinning, Jane Piper, and Elizabeth West Marvin New York: W.W. Norton. 2005.
Ottman ,Robert. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall. 2004.
Phillips, Joel, Jane Piper Clendinning ,and Elizabeth West Marvin . Vol.1 New York: W.W.Norton. 2005.
Course Planner First Six Weeks Chapters from The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis:(textbook, anthology); Guide to Aural Skills (workbook)
Part I: Building a Musical Vocabulary Week 1 Overview of AP Music Theory Course Description book Sample exam questions found in the AP Course Description. Complete the sample free-response questions as a class, including the sight-singing exercises. Chapters from The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis (textbook, anthology); Guide to Aural Skills (workbook)
Week 1 Chapter 1 Pitch and Pitch Class Week 2 Chapter 2 Beat, Meter, and Rhythm: Simple Meters Weeks 3 –4 Chapter 3 Pitch Collections, Scales, and Major Keys Week 5 Chapter 4 Minor Keys and Diatonic Modes Chapter 5 Beat, Meter and Rhythm: Compound Meters Week 6 Chapter 6 Pitch Intervals Sight-Singing: Ottman, Robert. Music for Sight-Singing. Week 1 Chapter 1 Introduction to Solfège/Simple Meter Week 3 Chapter 2 Scale Line Melodies/Simple Meter Week 5 Chapter 3 Intervals from the Tonic Triad, Major Keys/Simple Meter
Second Six Weeks Chapters from The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis:(textbook, anthology); Guide to Aural Skills (workbook)
Weeks 1-2 Chapter 7 Triads and Seventh Chords Week 3 Part 1 Exam
Part II: Linking Musical Elements in Time Weeks 4-5 Chapter 8 Intervals in Action Week 6 Chapter 9 Melodic and Rhythmic Embellishment in Two-Voice Composition Sight-Singing Ottman, Robert. Music for Sight-Singing . Week 1 Chapter 4 Intervals from the Tonic Triad, Major Keys/Compound Meter Week 3 Chapter 5 Minor Keys: Intervals from the Tonic Triad/Simple and Compound Meters Week 5 Chapter 6 Intervals from the Dominant Triad: Major and Minor Keys
Third Six Weeks Chapters from The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis:(textbook, anthology); Guide to Aural Skills (workbook)
Week 1 Chapter 10 Notation and Scoring Weeks 2-3 Chapter 11 Voicing Chords in Multiple Parts: Instrumentation Week 4 Part II Exam Week 5 Mid term review Sight-Singing Week 1 Chapter 8 Further Use of Diatonic Intervals Week 3 Chapter 9 Intervals from the Dominant Seventh Chord
MID-TERM REVIEW AND EXAM
Fourth Six Weeks Chapters from The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis:(textbook, anthology); Guide to Aural Skills (workbook)
Part III: The Phrase Model Week 1 Chapter 12 The Basic Phrase Model: Tonic and Dominant Voice- Leading Week 2 Chapter 13 Embellishing Tones Week 3 Chapter 14 Chorale Harmonization and Figured Bass Week 4 Chapter 15 Expanding the Basic Phrase: Leading-Tone, Predominant, and 6/4 Chords Week 5 Chapter 16 Further Expansions of the Basic Phrase: Tonic Expansions, Root Progressions, and the Mediant Triad Week 6 Chapter 17 The Interaction of Melody and Harmony: More on Cadence, Phrase, and Melody
Sight-Singing Part II —Melody: Diatonic Intervals/Rhythm: Subdivision of the Beat Week 1 Chapter 10 Rhythm Dictation Practice Week 2 Chapter 11 Melody: Intervals from the Tonic and Dominant Triads Week 3 Chapter 12 Further Use of Diatonic Intervals 8-measure excerpts from choral literature Teacher-composed 8-measure phrases Student-composed 8-measure phrases
Fifth Six Weeks Chapters from The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis:(textbook, anthology); Guide to Aural Skills (workbook)
Week 1 Chapter 18 Diatonic Sequences Week 2 Chapter 19 Intensifying the Dominant: Secondary Dominants and Secondary Leading-Tone Chords; New Voice-Leading Chords Part V: Musical Form and Interpretation Week 3 Part III Exam Chapter 26 Popular Song and Art Song Week 4 Chapter 27 Variation and Rondo Chapter 23 Binary and Ternary Forms (from Part IV) Week 5 Chapter 28 Sonata-Form Movements Chapter 29 Chromaticism; Introduction to 20th century composing techniques Week 6 Part V Exam
Sixth Six Weeks Part IV: Further Expansion of the Harmonic Vocabulary Chapters from The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis:(textbook, anthology); Guide to Aural Skills (workbook)
Week 1 Chapter 21 Tonicizing Scale Degrees Other Than V Chapter 22 Modulation to Closely Related Keys Week 2 Chapter 30 Twentieth Centruy Modes, Scales and Sets (including analysis) Week 3 Part IV/Part VI Exam Weeks 1–6 Required exams from the Musician’s Guide Web site Weeks 1–6 Dictation exercises —melodic and harmonic Weeks 1–6 Free-response question exercises Weeks 1–6 Recorded sight-singing exercises Weeks 1 –6 In-depth aural analysis of literature —classwork/discussion Weeks 1 –6 Students complete teacher-designed exams based on AP Released Exam materials. Weeks 1-6 Student arranging assignments Weeks 3-5: Complete AP Music Theory Released Exams All students are administered two recorded sight-singing tests comparable to those used on the AP Exam.
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